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The Code Of Handsome Lake Lyrics

*These are the People of the LonghouseThese are the People that you tried to breakThese are the People of the PinesWho Follow the Code of Handsome Lake

He drank your poison, swallowed your fireAnd lay with fever four long yearsHe received a vision so inspiredThree messengers with painted faces appearedOn the Allegheny river at a place called Burnt HouseThe code was shared for the very first timeBy a Seneca chief, they call Handsome LakeWith a Wounded Heart and a sober mind

*Repeat

**We are the People of the LonghouseWe are the People that you couldn't breakWe are the People of the Sacred PipeWho Follow The Code of Handsome Lake

When the Dark Moon had come to live in your soulGet in touch with your creator, you are not aloneThese are the wordsThat he had spoken two hundred years agoAnd today they still ring trueLike they're carved in stoneWhen Native life was hurled into the pitBy way of the Canon, Rum, and GreedOh a great fire was burned, to let the smoke riseAnd show the Six Nations the code was still alive

Way Down Deep in the BushWe Oh hi ne oh he oh we oh we we(section repeats 4 times)